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Who's That Professor!
Mythology
Unit Mania
Obscure American History
Pseudo STEM
100

This professor, who does research in High Energy Physics, is the Physics Club Faculty Advisor.

Who is Dr. Andrew Ivanov?

100

The patron goddess for the city of Rome (in Latin: Roma).

Who is Venus?  (Aphrodite for half points)

100
The S.I. unit for mass.
What is a kilogram?
100

Which European countries' former territory make up modern America.

England, France, The Netherlands, Spain, and Russia.

(Name at least two for credit and extra 10 points for each additional)

100

Don't mix up Astronomy with this field which studies the influence of stars on human behavior.

What is Astrology?

200

This professor left his High Energy Physics research to become the head of the department.

Who is Dr. Tim Bolton?

200

The princess Theseus abandoned on Naxos after defeating the minotaur.

Ariadne

200

There are this many quarts in a gallon.

What is four?

200

This sweet disaster devastated Boston in 1919 after a storage tank's structure failed, killing 21 and wounding 150 people.

What is the Great Molasses Flood? (Also accept Boston Molasses Disaster)

200
This religion/cult may have the "-ology" suffix, but it couldn't be further from the field of STEM.

What is scientology?

300
This professor, who is currently in phased retirement, boasts accolades ranging from teaching PMI to working as an advisor for the State Department.

Who is Dr. Brett DePaola?

300

What are the five rivers of the underworld?

What are the Styx, Lethe, Archeron, Phlegethon, Cocytus?

300

This has the base S.I. units of (kg*m2)/(s3*A).

What is volt?

300

According to the nursery rhyme, the Chicago Fire was started by this animal.

What is cow?

300

This society seeks to prove the geometry of the Earth is not spherical.

What is the Flat Earth Society?

400

This professor is actually a chemist and researches AMO.

Who is Dr. Loren Greenman

400

Take the number of hills in Rome, multiply the number of Olympian gods, add the number of Athena's children, and divide by the number of Hercules' labors. Present answers in the form of Roman numerals.

What is VII?

400

The standard imperial unit for gravitational acceleration.

What is a slug (1 ft/s2)?
400

This rebellion has had three iterations, with the most recent being 2008, where widespread discontent over western state federal land distribution lead to threats of violence and uprising.

What is the Sagebrush Rebellion?

400

This field explains natural events and phenomena by examine relations between mathematical values and coinciding events.

What is Numerology?

500
This distinguished professor and fellow of the American Physical Society is currently in phased retirement after decades of groundbreaking AMO research.

Who is Chii-Dong Lin?

500
The androgynous Greek goddess of origin and order, from whom physics derives its name.

Who is Physis

500

This is the oldest unit, representing the average length of a forearm.

What is the Egyptian Cubit? (cubit also accepted)

500

The Honey War saw these two states face off over a boarder dispute, ending in the incarceration of one sheriff and the loss of a beehive bearing tree.

What are Iowa and Missouri?

500

This theory explains the soupy nature and origin of the universe and reality.

What is Soup Theory?